The Bible and Money, with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Do you want answers from the Bible about making more money and prospering financially?  The Bible has a lot to teach us about money.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc1ZUD7_VCA Today, Rabbi Daniel Lapin is back to discuss Biblical principles. For example, he'll discuss principles that you can apply to increase your revenue. He also shares how the Bible guides you to prosperity. So, if you want to deepen your faith, improve your finances, and build your financial life on a solid foundation… tune in now! Table of contentsWhy is Biblical Financial Success a Passion for Rabbi Lapin? The Bible and MoneyAncient Jewish Wisdom: The Bible and MoneyIs it Bad to Make Money?What Ancient Jewish Wisdom Reveals About HumanityBiblical Wisdom to Increase RevenueConnect with Rabbi LapinAbout Rabbi Daniel LapinView Our Other Conversations with Rabbi LapinBook A Strategy Call Why is Biblical Financial Success a Passion for Rabbi Lapin?  [3:16] “First of all, it’s satisfying because it’s complex. And what I mean by that is, life is complex. Any attempt to solve the problems of life with a slogan or keyword or simple solution is doomed to failure. And people regularly ask me, you know, what is the secret to money?” In most cases, when people ask this question of Rabbi Lapin, they’re looking for a simple solution. Yet, as he points out, it’s not a simple subject and cannot be reduced to a simple answer. This led the Rabbi to dig deeper and become more interested in the ancient financial wisdom within the Bible.  [5:47] “I’m afraid the Bible is just like that. If you’re going to try to solve this in a simplistic way and find a verse here or a verse there that helps you with finances, you’re going to be doomed. Because anybody who knows his way around the Bible will find a verse that says one thing and then another verse that apparently says the opposite.” To unlock wisdom from the Bible requires deep study to understand the context. A verse here or there is no good without the knowledge of why it exists in the first place.  The Bible and Money [6:35] “When you got right down to it, the question I was always asked was, ‘Why are Jews so disproportionately good with money?’ And it turned out to be a very worthwhile field of study that no one had really done.” Since there was little accessible information on this topic, Rabbi Lapin embraced the subject. Over the course of his work, he’s studied and identified the connections between the holy texts and cultural behaviors. Additionally, he's studied the history surrounding Judaism, and how that applies to money.  Through his books, he’s helped to make this information more accessible to people in and outside the faith.  Ancient Jewish Wisdom: The Bible and Money [17:00] “Heaven and Earth are two separate categories of information. One is information that is earthly, it’s materialistic. Another form of information is ephemeral…You can’t touch it… It’s something, again, that Jewish people have always understood, to their credit and to their benefit. Which is that there is a form of knowledge which is earthly. And this you can roughly call science, technology, discovery, and medicine. In all of these things, every successive generation knows more than the one before it… However, when we come to the things that never change, well, on those, we actually seem to know less as time goes by.” Those things that never change, as they would happen, can be sourced from the Bible just as readily as anywhere else. One of Rabbi Lapin’s examples is the relationship of parent to child, and how teenage children ignore their parent’s wisdom, only for adult children to understand and appreciate their parent’s wisdom. This has never changed, yet the Rabbi asserts there’s more value in studying something like this from ancient texts than modern ones. Because that ancient wisdom gets it right.  [22:30 “The beauty of ancient Jewish wisdom, in my experience,